Function 5: Define the Intervention

Describes how teams define the intervention by stating the purpose, goals, and guiding principles; identifying core components and how they align; and then further operationalizing after getting proposal approval.

Publication year: 2019
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Capacity Building Center for States

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Examines how child welfare agencies can assess and select the best possible intervention to address identified problems and unmet needs. Choosing an appropriate solution requires critical thinking about whether an existing intervention is a “good fit” and holds promise or if something new is needed. This series of eight videos examines intervention selection by considering essential functions or tasks. Function 5 describes how teams define an intervention by stating the purpose, goals, and guiding principles; identifying core components and how they align; and further operationalizing the intervention after a proposal is approved.

More From This Series

Intervention Selection and Design/Adaptation Video Series
Function 1: Research Possible Intervention Options
Function 2: Assess Evidence, Fit, and Feasibility of Possible Interventions
Function 3: Determine Whether Interventions Are Well Defined (Usable and Transferrable)
Function 4: Decide to Replicate or Adapt an Existing Intervention or Design a New One
Function 6: Develop a proposal
Function 7A: Operationalize Core Components
Function 7B: Adapt or Develop Practice Profiles
Safely Reducing the Use of Congregate Care: Deciding What to Implement to Achieve Successful Change

Suggested Citation

Capacity Building Center for States (2019). Function 5: Define the Intervention. Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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